i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
Rachel A
@rachiea.bsky.social
Librarian by day, word scribbler at night. Find said words in Gavagai, GrendelPress, Plott Hound, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Apex’s Strange Locations, Malarkey, and elsewhere. Genre: Midwest weird. Codex.
Today is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
My 30s were when I came to truly understand myself. Enjoy the benefits of aging, my friends!
Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 5d ago
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry
Frog drank the tea, and then he said, “Tell me a story while I am resting.”
Got this contributor copy of speculative poetry magazine Star*Line about a week ago! Yay!
Reading @plotthoundmag.bsky.social stories tonight and really enjoyed the wonderfully eerie, "A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon" by @srinivassimo.bsky.social "The night-calves lifted their ghostly heads, at the end of long ghostly necks, and watched her with milk-drop eyes." plotthoundmag.com/a-pale-herd-...
”A Pale Herd, a Worm Moon” by Simo Srinivas – Plott Hound Magazine
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With the success of "Tea or Coffee, Stars, and Gravity" [https://aanpress.com/aanorder.html#tcsg] AaN is looking to publish an additional volume of stories by authors we did not have the budget for in the first book. More info coming on "A Second Cup" and a KS campaign this autumn.
DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN
Kaleidotrope re-opens to fiction and poetry submissions two weeks from today, on July 19. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/
Know that libraries count things. How many people have cards, how many times a book or DVD or CD is checked out, etc. And then we take those numbers to our internal staff and say "look, people want this" to justify purchases, and then to local govts to say "look, we need to stay open".
Old School Punk Librarian@kennethf62.bsky.social · last mo.Just a reminder. I'm always surprised how many people aren't aware of this. #Libraries
[RECORDED] is sitting at $1325, and the first stretch goal of $2000 would add 3 more flash stories and 4 more short stories!!
[RECORDED] — An Anthology of Found Media Fiction!
Weird videos you didn't take showing up on your phone... Haunted books no one else remembers reading... Strange audio cassettes that won't let you stop listening... [RECORDED] showcases weird, spooky,...
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The American Library Association is auctioning off a bunch of the classic celebrity “READ” posters along with a bunch of other full sized literacy posters. This is going to fix so many of my problems, I just know it. movieposters.ha.com/c/search/res...
Violet Lichen is NOW OPEN to novella queries until June 30th! 🌱🍄 We're seeking speculative and literary ecofiction and sci-fi between 30-45k words. We look forward to reading your work! Read Full Submission Guidelines: violetlichen.com/submissions/ Query Portal: querytracker.net/query/Violet...
Thanks so much to everyone who voted for "Laser Eyes Ain't Everything"!!! The other nominees are amazing & you should read them. Thanks to my husband for helping me make the space to write, to @wiswell.bsky.social and @atgreenblatt.bsky.social for critiquing, & to @diabolicalplots.com for editing.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association@sfwa.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnd the Nebula Award for Short Story goes to... 👀 “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything”, by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25) 🎉 ALL the short story finalists this year are holding the line in an important time. Congratulations, Effie - and thank you for your work!
Wow, Trump finally got a crowd to show up at the Kennedy Center.
